Reflection

Op. 31a
This enchanting 8-minute piece for violin and piano—Oliver Knussen’s penultimate work—is made up of various kinds of musical reflection: melody reflected in its inversion; a six-note mode reflected in its complement; and the relationships between the three main parts of the piece, which are in a way varied reflections of each other. There are some reflections in water, too; the work’s opus number (31a) demonstrates a relationship to Knussen’s unfinished Cleveland Pictures: “The main melody began as a response to Gauguin’s painting of a Breton woman swimming,” Knussen wrote, “and there is also, perhaps, an echo of the lonely underwater world of an ondine, eventually breaking the surface at the end of the piece.”

Additional Information

SKU#: 12-0571520561
UPC: 9780571520565
ISBN-10: 0571520561
ISBN-13: 9780571520565
Series: Faber Edition
Secondary Category: String – Violin and Piano
Format: Score & Part
Contributors: By Oliver Knussen
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